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title: "dǎ léi le" means "it's thundering"; in slang "léi rén" means shocki… — Weather and what Granny says to wear · tree and pragmatics
description: "dǎ léi le" means "it's thundering"; in slang "léi rén" means shocking or cringe. Who acts: dǎ, léi le, xià yǔ le, slang léi rén. A sentence of the lesson «Weather and what Granny says to wear» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Weather and what Granny says to wear, sentence 13

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"dǎ léi le" means "it's thundering"; in slang "léi rén" means shocking or cringe.

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**Who acts:** dǎ, léi le, xià yǔ le, slang léi rén · **What happens:** le, mean, thunder, shock · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Weather and what Granny says to wear» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dǎ, léi le, xià yǔ le, slang léi rén), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chinese-street:020-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear.lesson:13
# text = "dǎ léi le" means "it's thundering"; in slang "léi rén" means shocking or cringe.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chinese-street
# lesson = 020-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R8-pos-agree ×2
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
2	dǎ	dǎ	X	FW	_	4	nsubj	_	_
3	léi	léi	X	FW	_	4	compound	_	_
4	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	thundering	thunder	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	ccomp	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	slang	slang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
16	léi	léi	X	FW	_	17	compound	_	_
17	rén	rén	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
19	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
20	shocking	shock	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	ccomp	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	cringe	cringe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **le** *in a quote* |  | dǎ |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | present | léi le |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **thunder** *in a quote* | present · progressive | xià yǔ le *= le* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **mean** | present | slang léi rén |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **shock** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:chinese-street:020-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear.lesson:13`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R8-pos-agree ×2. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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